Thread: Rust effect paint anyone?

There will always be those who will charge large amounts for something that should be very cheap to do.

What are you trying to achieve.

There are many wasy to achieve a rusty effect.

cheers

Originally Posted by soundman

There will always be those who will charge large amounts for something that should be very cheap to do.

What are you trying to achieve.

There are many wasy to achieve a rusty effect.

cheers

Ii want to achieve a rusted effect on a piece of wood 450mm x 320mm x 50mm - I want it to look like a rusty piece of steel - it should be smooth to the touch which means it will be sealed with a clear coat

rusty on wood is different to rusty on steel ....... when you say smooth to touch ...... how exactly smooth?

this could be achieved with a redish brown base and some darker brown textures probably two tones, with a clear over.

If you did not want to too smooth some sort of grit could be applied between coats.

not unlike a brick effect but less coarse and with slightly different colours.

there are books and articles about "Faux finishes" .... nothing new, it has been big at different times ...... a lot of old school tradesman painters and intereious decorators knew all about this particularly if they where trained in the UK or france.

cheers

Originally Posted by soundman

there are books and articles about "Faux finishes"

thanks for your interest

Quite a lot on YouTube on creating this type of finish using a base coat and various acrylic colours and scumbles to recreate the effect. One interesting technique is to roughly grind rock salt and dump it onto the base coat in random spots. A darker 2nd base coat goes over that and once dry the rock salt is pulled up with a scraper leaving a pretty fair looking random splodges of rusty looking surface pattern. The whole thing is then attacked with acrylics on rough brush ends - red, yellow etc and rubbed back and reapplied to build up a reasonable looking rusted finish. Normal brown coloured metal primer is ideal looking base coat.

Having taken that all into account the idea of applying a metal laden paint and applying acid to create real rust definitely has a very primal appeal for me.

The finished surface needs to very smooth and I am happy to build a thick surface of lacquer to achieve the desired result

Copper verdigris finish is easy, if thats any good to you send me a message and i'll let you into my secret )

Originally Posted by Jazzys

Copper verdigris finish is easy, if thats any good to you send me a message and i'll let you into my secret )

Intrigued.

Perhaps share it with the rest of us.